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Putting Aid Program

• steveosh 102 Posts

  Tue, Dec 18 2012 7:30 AM

  Somewhere on the forums there is a post that gives details about Putting, and even gives you a Formula for putting.

  It does NOT show you where to aim your Putt, but figures out how much weight to use in your Putt.

  I have taken it 1step further, I made a small little program that you enter 3 values - Feet to Cup - Green Speed - Elevation. and then click Calculate.

  It then gives you what yard strength to use.

  For example -  Your 24 ft to the green - Fast Green Speeds - Up Elevation of 5

  Answer : Hit the ball for 28.6 ft... round up to 29

  I have found this to be accurate.

  This is my first time EVER creating an exe file . It won't let me paste the picture of the program :(

  
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• steveosh 102 Posts

  Tue, Dec 18 2012 7:39 AM

  sorry can't seem to re-size it to fit in the forum window.

   

  but if you click it takes you to where i saved the file.

• hpurey 11,505 Posts

  Tue, Dec 18 2012 4:56 PM

  

   

  I still prefer a calculator, for the simple fact that more severe uphill or downhill putts, I would use a slightly higher % to take off for the different green speeds.  

• steveosh 102 Posts

  Tue, Dec 18 2012 6:26 PM

  i was just going by the formula that i saw on here, got tired of writing down number then using a calculator ... i have found it pretty good so far

   

  Thanks to resize it

• alanti 10,564 Posts

  Tue, Dec 18 2012 7:10 PM

  Hi Steve, good effort and will save time in calculating. The only problem I can see is the gradients. The calculator will work pretty well up to fast greens, but faster greens speeds have a much more pronounced variable when facing downhill putts of 3 inches or more. But after all any calculation is just a guideline.

• steveosh 102 Posts

  Tue, Dec 18 2012 8:22 PM

  Well so far I have done upto Tourny speeds and they seem to work, However, it is a variable that has to be entered, so someone could try their own values.

   

  But then I have been the only tester.  if someone else cares to try, let me know maybe i can host the file somewhere so they can test it too, and be nice for any reviews...

• steveosh 102 Posts

  Tue, Dec 18 2012 8:36 PM

  Ok so here is the file... if someone cares to help test it, it would be greatly appreciated.

   

  http://www.filefactory.com/file/5raxaikuhikd/n/New_Putting_Aid_zip

• saltiresfan 2,266 Posts

  Wed, Dec 19 2012 4:11 AM

  Good work but to be honest reading the break is much more important.

• 9,041 Posts

  Wed, Dec 19 2012 4:32 AM

  steveosh:

  For example -  Your 24 ft to the green - Fast Green Speeds - Up Elevation of 5

  Answer : Hit the ball for 28.6 ft... round up to 29

  I'd hit that putt 25ft...

  24 plus 5, divided by 1.2 = 24.16, round up to 25 

  Andy

   

• SGTBilko 1,686 Posts

  Wed, Dec 19 2012 4:42 AM

  Already done but hey options are great!!!! https://sites.google.com/site/bilkosputterpal/